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There are a few companies in which the president is better known than the chairman. Doubtless more people could name Colby Mitchell Chester Jr., as president of General Foods Corp. than could name Edward F. Hutton as chairman, despite the latter's fame as a broker. Simon Guggenheim, president of American Smelting & Refining, is more famed than Chairman Francis Herbert Brownell. General Motors' President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. is far more in the public eye than Lammot du Pont, chairman...
...from Manhasset, L. I. one dark evening last fortnight put a small, dark craft called Tar Baby. Aboard were a banker, a broker, an aviator. Broker R. Snowden Andrews and Aviator John Petre were old sealers; Banker Edward Fletcher had never heard a seal bark. Thirty-six hours later the Tar Baby crept toward Goose Island, the Sound's favorite seal haunt. But the weather was thick, the seals kept away from the rocks where on bright days they bask. Patiently the banker, the broker, the aviator waited for another dawn. That day it snowed, they shivered aboard their...
...investment broker, President-elect Cohu learned aviation from the inside after his firm organized the investment trust called Air Investors Inc. (a substantial stockholder in Aviation Corp.). When the management of that firm became involved, Broker Cohu was made president. Year ago he was elected a director of Avco, became known as "a sort of Col. House of the directorate." He held no other office but was always being called into important committee meetings...
Dissipated Broker Harley Longstreet, to celebrate his engagement to Cherry Browne, gives a party at a New York Hotel. Longstreet's business-partner John De Witt, his wife and daughter, six other acquaintances attend. In spite of gin, the party is far from merry since nearly all the guests have particular reasons for hating their host. He invites them to continue the celebration at his West Englewood home. Because of a sudden shower they all board a crosstown trolley-car. Before they have gone two blocks Longstreet falls dead. In his coat pocket is found a ball of cork...
...enough evidence for a legal conviction. Two more murders, an attempted suicide, a backtrack to a murder in South America keep the clues changing like chameleons. With the baffled sleuths, the reader is kept on pins & needles until Actor Lane, masking himself as dead Broker Longstreet, unmasks the murderer by a logical surprise...